Both Uses of
premise
in
Hard Times
- It is lamentable to think of; but this restraint was the result of no arithmetical process, was self-imposed in defiance of all calculation, and went dead against any table of probabilities that any Actuary would have drawn up from the premises.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- Whether she would instantly depart, bag and baggage, to Lady Scadgers, or would positively refuse to budge from the premises; whether she would be plaintive or abusive, tearful or tearing; whether she would break her heart, or break the lookingglass; Mr. Bounderby could not all foresee.†
Chpt 1.16
Definition:
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(premise as in: the premise of the argument) something assumed to be true and upon which other things are based